On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:57:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> !Is there even a POD->VMS help module out there?
> 
> Yes, but it goes by a name that tries to cloak it from
> Windows .hlp help compiler folks:
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/src/PVHP/Pod2VMSHlp-1.02/

Perhaps you should change the name/wrap it in Pod::VMS::Hlp and pod2vmshlp
rather than Pod::Hlp to avoid confusion.


> Note that CPAN indexers won't even index it under the VMS::* namespace
> because of the distribution name.

Should it?  There's no VMS:: packages in it and with the exception of
pod2hlb, nothing really VMS specific about it.  The format just happens to
be one used on VMS.  Would be like having WWW::Pod::HTML instead of
Pod::HTML.


> The distribution includes a pod to VMS HLP converter and a pod to VMS
> RUNOFF converter (as well as a wrapper around LIBRARY to turn *.HLP files
> into a PERL.HLB help library).

<Ignorance>Okay, whatever those are. ;)</Ignorance>


> Caveat's: it does not use Pod::Parse, and it has not been tested against
> perl 5.8.0 and the Makefile.PL might have "" hash ref bugs in it.

Well, if someone wants to fix it up and write a vmshelpifypods target I'll
hlp integrate it into MakeMaker.


-- 

Michael G. Schwern   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl Quality Assurance      <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         Kwalitee Is Job One
You can't control the universe with a jar of red pepper.
        http://www.goats.com/archive/981004.html

Reply via email to